On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 15:46 -0700, Vincent Hallberg wrote:
> > > for (a = opts.length; a > 0; --a) {
> > You've ended your comment with that --
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4
>
> Thank you for the pointer Paul but I think you misread my original
> description above, "And ends like this on line 1241: // -->".
No, he hasn't. As Paul said, the actual bit of <!-- --> that delimits
the comment is "--". So "--a" means "End of comment followed by the
character 'a'".